Once something is written, it travels through the world with the help of internet and many publication firms to various people, libraries, and bookstores. With the exposure of the amount of information on the internet, people can now easily decide …
Journal 2: The Transformation of Reading
We have always been a society that reads. Reading serves so many purposes such as
entertainment, to understand a concept, get information etc. Digital technology
has definitely changed our society’s experience of reading. It has changed our
experience by going …
Journal 2- Uncomfortable Changes in learning how to READ
I feel like the biggest question the professor is asking us is definitely the first one: How do you think digital technology has transformed our society’s experience of reading and writing?
Just the other day, I was watching TV and …
Google Mnemonic-Blog Post 2
This week’s class material gave me food for thought. As the article “Will the Book Survive Generation Text,” asks: “…are we worse for not having archived the ephemera of mankind, for having devoted libraries and syllabi to books-the weightiest, most …
Digital Text
The future of writing and reading seems to be on the edge of a line. On the one side, everything is digitized, and on the other is the traditional print. Society seems to want to place these two futures at …
The written word never dies, only changes
From our reading, I’m quite surprised at the doomsday prophecies people seem to have concerning print media. Granted, I myself am a voracious reader so my view is probably quite skewed, but to me print media is not at all …
Post 2
We are seeing how the internet and word processing has affected general cognition in terms or reading and writing. Although one may struggle to adapt to create and process information, the creative drive will always be present. The danger of …
First Blog on Humanities
As we move forward with technology and the advancment of access to information I believe that it is inevitable that the Humanities department will be forever changed. Our society’s technology has pushed the younger generation towards new channels of information …
Where ever we are going We are already there
The way our society is moving it seems clear that we are going towards becoming digital ourselves. This isn’t to say that I believe in Gibson’s idea of having digital information stored into our heads, however, it seems clear our …
Cyborgs: Post # 2
While watching the video “Sixth Sense Technology” by Pranav
Mistry, I was shocked. My mouth was left open. I was in complete denial that
something like what was discussed in the video could exist. I began to discuss
what I …